Napier
Back from Napier. Visited my Granddad. I had my laptop with me but no internet - I noticed several shops in the CBD that offered free WIFI. I didn’t worry - instead spending the time offline on my laptop and watching CI, Sky Sports (cricket),One News and the horse racing with Granddad.
I got out each day and drew. Here are the street works from around Napier:
Square. I sat here several times and drew. This was a favorite piece of mine. I’m looking forward to taking it into GIMP and painting over it. With the line I attempted to create a range of marks in order to show the texture.
Waterfront. Sitting on a bench and looking South. It was beautiful weather - especially in the evening. This is the left side of the page… I continued it onto the second. 
Plant in the foreground. I captured someone walking but - mostly to give proportion to the image. Thinking about it now - I really should of checked on life drawing classes. Oh well, I enjoyed the drawing on the streets. Plenty of people on the street that I was able to capture.
This was on Friday night. I sat near a car park and drew the church and plants across the road. They had a water fountain that I especially enjoyed drawing.
Second page of the church drawing. Less detail in this one - just quick 
Before the trip. This was drawn in Levin.
This was a night drawing. I sat on a street that reminded me greatly of Cuba Street. Looking out towards where I walk to my Grandfathers home. It’s quite the wak, but I got out at least once a day.
W ater front drawing. I started with Gouache (work I’ll post in a future post). People liked to come to the waterfront, many sitting and eating fish and chips. In this piece two figures sit and watch the hills 
Yet another waterfront drawing. One major difference I noticed with painting was the problem with catching small details - rather impressions of the area. I’ll try to work with goauche more but /i do enjoy the life drawing to digital painting process.
I look forward taking these works into GIIMP.
More drawings and start posting paintings later.